ASSESSMENT OF ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY OF THE INVESTMENT PROJECT ON MODERNIZATION OF THE INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISE WASTEWATER TREATMENT TECHNOLOGY WITHIN ESG STRATEGY

Abstract

The strategy of sustainable development of society implies the need to revise the basic approaches to nature management. In this regard, in the past few years, the trend towards environmental friendliness and responsibility has spread in the field of investment. In the foreseeable future, global funds plan to stop investing in companies that ignore the basic principles of sustainable development. In our country, the largest banks have introduced ESG into the lending process - the assessment of companies for compliance with the principles of sustainable development. Companies that apply for a good ESG assessment should focus on the introduction of fundamentally new, improved waste-free or low-waste technologies, reducing the formation of pollutants. The article considers the main directions of greening industrial production and the problems of implementing these directions. The main directions of the environmental policy of the industrial enterprise JSC "Uralelectromed", operating in the Sverdlovsk region of the Russian Federation, are studied. Based on the analysis of the main directions of greening the production of JSC "Uralelectromed", an investment project was proposed on modernization of the outdated wastewater treatment technology, by replacing the horizontal sump with reverse osmosis technology and the use of PRAESTOL 2505 flocculants. The investment project was assessed and it was concluded that this project would not only improve the quality of wastewater treatment, but also obtain a positive economic effect by reducing energy and time costs, reducing the amount of fines for exceeding the maximum allowable discharges into surface waters.